METAMORFOZA E AGO JAKUPIT: LUMEN DHE NUMEN
AGO JAKUPI METAMORPHOSIS: LUMEN AND NUMEN

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we have tried a different interpretation of one of the most special stories of modern Albanian literature Qysh e gjeti Ago Jakupi rrugwn e Zotit (How did Ago Jakupi find the way of God) by the author Mitrush Kuteli, analyzing the process of metamorphosis of the protagonist. The story shows us the path that a human being must take to be righteous in the eyes of God. The protagonist, Ago Jakupi, appears to us as a change of him selve at different times, or a transformation of the same selves during these times, oposing two concepts that appear in contradiction with each other: the concept of divine rightnesses and the concept of human rightnesses, from which the protagonist must choose. His metamorphosis requires the transformation from a materialist subject to a spiritualist one, forcing him to know the natyral human light- lumen and finding the devine presence numen. Based on the biblical code, Mitrush Kuteli puts at the core of this story the concept of moral perfection, seeking the purification of the human soul through morality and goodness in earthly life, as a condition, to gain ‘life’ in the eternal kingdom. The research was based on philosophical theory and the biblical code, thus reading the text according to the biblical intertext and interpreting the concept of sin and death according to the philosophical point of view.

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